Analysis of the Salmonella regulatory network suggests involvement of SsrB and H-NS in σE-regulated SPI-2 gene expression

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Li, Jie ^a   Overall, Christopher C ^b   Nakayasu, Ernesto S ^b,d   Kidwai, Afshan S ^a   Jones, Marcus B ^c   Johnson, Rudd C ^a   Nguyen, Nhu T ^a   McDermott, Jason E ^b   Ansong, Charles ^b   Heffron, Fred ^a   Cambronne, Eric D ^a   Adkins, Joshua N ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; H NS; Microarray; Regulation; RpoE; Salmonella; SPI 2

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SSRB; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HNS GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPOE GENE; SALMONELLA; SPI 2 GENE; SSRB GENE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

MURINAE; MUS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84926430791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00027     Document Type: Article

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